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If you don't want to draw on the crossword in the Almost Spring 2015 Issue of Edible Vancouver & Wine Country, you can download a PDF to print out here (and this one has the right number of clues and answers!). If our Art Director, Illustrator, Crossword Designer, and general all-round genius, Bambi Edlund, has you flummoxed, you can download a PDF of the answers here.

Mom always told us not to judge a book by its cover, but the truth is we don’t follow every word of her advice. (Just most of them.) Judging books by their covers and beer by their labels has served us well.

The Comfort of Tea

Can the camellia sinensis, as the evergreen tea plant is named, grow on Canada’s west coast? Members of the BC Tea Growers Association think so. The non-profit society, founded in 2011 by tea enthusiasts Adrian Sinclair and Karlis Kalnins, aims to promote the local cultivation of tea. Their website includes a history of local tea growing, dating back more than half a century to St. Vincent’s Tea Plantation in the Fraser Valley.

THE STRAWBERRY CAN BE A DISSEMBLING TEMPTRESS. Come June, you’ll see these ruby-red coquettes on every street corner, their incomparable fragrance promising every good thing that is summer. It is impossible not to be smitten. We’ve waited for this moment all year: local strawberries!